Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 113
The magician had given them life, and dressed them in embroidered robes.
What happens: give, dress, embroider · To what, where: magician, courtiers, embroidered robes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | obj |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dressed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dressed | cc |
| 9 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dressed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 robes | case |
| 12 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 robes | amod |
| 13 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dressed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the magician | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dress | past | courtiers = courtier | embroidered robes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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